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AN EXCITING BABY SHOW.

President Cleveland, Gov Hill, DIR. Talmage,
and Others Offering Prizes.
Washington Special.
Mr.. Clifford Wibert the gentleman whose
name appears as 1.-THE man in charge" of the
baby department Of the East Aurora. n. Y, fair,
in the circulars sent out by that institution. will
have to devote q great deal of time to the study
of ethnology during the next two weeks if he
is to maintain the dignity of his position At
first the projectors of the enterprise intended to
give their pa irons a simple country fair, with
baby-show attachment extra attraction to
the ladies. They had no idea of national fame
until President Cleveland contributed that IA
nous golden eagle with the stipulation that it
should be given as a prize for set of trplets.
This was followed by q larger sum t$2o) from
Governor Hill. He desired that the best pair
of colored twins should have that prize, and now
it Is reported thai the pastor of the colored
church in Buffalo has promised to see that there
are least three pairs of these interesting little
ones on the grounds.
The next celebrity to become mixed up In this
unique entertainment the Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmags. who will marry pair OF lovers on the
grounds
Now there is another. Mayor Philip Becker
of Buffalo, yesterday sent for the president of
the association and stated to him that he did not
like to see partiallty shown by the management
There are u number OF Indians on the reservation
near Buffalo, and Mr. Becker thought that the
papoosss of the Senecas ought to be induced to
come to the front He accordingly offers prize
of $40 to the best Indian child under four years
of age who may be exhibited at the fair. He
s.ipulates that there shall be no distinction on
account OF sex. but that the little squaws shall
enter the contests fair footing with the
bucks
The manager of the Fair teleeravhed here to-
day to ascertain whether it would be necessary
to secure the permission of the Secretary of the
Interior before the Indians leave their reser-
vatiou He was informed that such consent is
not necessary, the United States has nothing
to do with the support of the Six Nations in
Nav York
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business Embarrassmants.

KITTANISG. Pa, Aug. "a &c. w. Wilkins, an
extensive lumberman and oat-builder, made an
assignment to-day of all his property Mr. Will
kins had a very large business and was estimat
rs being worth over 800 000 His liabilities are
not known. 1t is believed that some lumber
contracts made some time ago are the cause of
the failure.
CISoINNATI Aug 24-The house of McHenry
q Co.. dealers in easfxtures, has given a mort
gage. both chattel and real estate, of $50 600 to
abe firm of Mitchell. Vance e. Co.. of New York
This done in hopes TO the New York
firm, but seems to have been Intellectual The
result 10 10 embarrass the Cincinnati firm which
has acted agent for Mitchell Vance e. Co.,
though Mr.. McHenry says it will not lead to
7usDensop-
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ILLINOIS,.

An Old Feud Results in Two Men Being
Probably Fatally Injured.
ANNA, Aug. "a While at shooting match
near his home last Friday night Henry Lump
kins. farmer living in the northwestern part
of this county attacked Wiley Smith, another
farmer of the same neighborhood. striking him
over the back of the head with a heavy club.
rendering him insensible. Isaac Smith, son of
the assaulted man, came to his fathers asss-
lance and struck Lumpkins over the back of the
head with water jug. making an ugly wound
He then stepped on his face, crushing it badly.
The injuries of both men will probably prove
fatal The fight was the result of an old feud
which started about four years ago. Lumpkins
despite his injuries. was arrested and brought
to Jonesboro, but was released on bail. Isaac
Smith has not yet been arrested.
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Engineer and Fireman Killed.

WHEELING. Aug. 24-Emigrant train No. 80,
coming west on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
this morning, at o'clock. ran into freight train
No. SS. at Eastou siding, twenty miles east of
this city. AL Smith. engineer of tho em1grant
train, and Isaac Arbuthnot, his frer An. were
instantly killed. The engineer and fireman of
the freight train only slightly injured.
Fifteen of the enigrants are seriously, but none
fatally, hurt. They have been. taken to Cam
eron for surgical attention Smith and Arbuth-
not lived in Wheeling, where they have families.
The accident was the result of a misapprehen-
sion of orders the part of the engineer of the
freight train. who thought he had the right of
way, and pulled out of the siding just as the
emigrant train up
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON Aug. 24-Mrs Cleveland and
Mrs. Fo, ON. accompanied by Gen. Gre ely and
wife, arrived here about o'clock this afternoon.
The President met the party at the depot and
escorted Mrs. Cleveland and her mother to the
carriage, and the party went Immediately to
the White House.
The President has promoted Commodore Ban
croft Gherardi to be rear admiral in the navy,
to take the place of Rear Admiral Franklin, re-
tired. Rear Admiral Gherardi is at present
commandant of the Brooklyn navy-yard His
commission was signed to day by the President
Oscar j. Wiley ro-day appointed first
lieutenant and Fred w. Thompson second lieu
tenant in the revenue marine service.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 24-Mrs. Fannie S. Roberts
served with order of arrest by the Man
haitian Company. to night. Mrs. Roberts is the
lady to whom Cashier Scott says he gave $40. 900
TO keep for him before he away. At late
hour she had not secured bail and was under
arrest at her magnificent home She declares
there is not word of truth in the Scott affidavit
far as it relates to her; she never knew Scott
heard of him till she her name mixed
up with his in the papers. Her lawyer who
was present, added that it is all horrible mis-
take. which shall be clearned up as early as
possible
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A Perturbed Gas Company.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LA PORTE, Aug. 24-The La Porte Gas and
improvement Association, promoters of a gas
we'll project is in ferment over the departure,
some two weeks ago, ot Mr.. Joyce, the sub-con-
tractor and driver of the we'll, who departed. as
he said, for Pittsburg, Pa, to get a new cable
Nothing has been heard from him. and the
progress of the we'll is stopped at depth of
eight hundred feet. The workmen were left
without their pay. and have placed lien upon
the en- CINE and tools Yesterday Mr.. Weber,
one of the directors of the company. was sent to
tractor, Mr. Watson, will be held responsible
for tho completion of the we'll The contract
called for drilling to a depth of 5000 feet, il
necessary. at two dollars per foot.
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PhiIadephia Press.
Prohibition in Rhode Island has produced
some queer results in the finances of the State,
the report of the Auditor General declaring that
the treasury is $3.50. 900 short account of the
prohibition of liquor-license fees and that owing
to the exhaustion of funds more money can
be paid to the State police. 1t appears that in
the past year the State has paid $667 to special
officers 'for working up evidence against liquor
searches for testimony to the quantity of
alcohol in the several kinds of beer" and various
other sums for similar purposes. Aside from
the temporary financial EN- barassment in which
prohib has involved the State it seems to be
working out useful end by demonstrating the
value of a practical hghlicense law.
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Brief Mention.

The Governor has appointed R. E. Koch, of
Cook county a member Of the Board of Dental
Examiners to succeed George III. Cushing whose
term has expired.
William Douahue, a young man twenty years
of his parents, in Lockport, from injuries re-
ceived while playing baseball last Sunday. He
was run into at third base and received internal
injuries.
formed by the division of West Galena and
first named Grant township. in honor of Gen.
Grant, has been changed TO Rawlins in honor Of
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BURGLAR Shot.

ST LOUIS, Aug. 24.-At 2:30 o'clock this morn
ing Dr. FL. Marx shot and fatally wounded a
No 1402 Monroe street Dr. Marx had been
sitting ND late, reading, and had just gone to
bed, lying there sleepess. when he heard the
shutters of the back parlor being tried. He got
a revolver. crept up to the window, and seeing
the form of man outside trying to force the
window open, he fired at him twice in rapid sue
cession through the shutters The burglar was
shot in the neck and in the right breast. He
gave his name as Henry LANCER, of St Louis.
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C-h-o-o! C-h-o-o!l C-h-o-o!.I

Don't sneeze, sneeze, hawk. howk, spit blow
and disgust everybody with your offensive
breath. II you have acrid. warery discharges
from the nose and eyes. throat disease, causing
choking sensations, cough, ringing noises in
head. splitting headache and other symptoms of
nasal catarrh, remember that the manufacturers
of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy offer, in good
faith, $500 reward for a case of catarrh which
they cannot cure The remedy is sold by all
druggists az only 80 cents.
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Baptist Anniversary.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
PARIS Aug. 24.-The ffty-frst anniversary
of the Bloomfield Baptist Association is being
held at the Baptist Church in this city. Tues
day, the first day. was devoted to Sunday-school
interests To-day Rev. J. c. Kennedy, of Fair
mount, H., delivered Introductory sermon,
which followed by Rev. Fl. H. Bauden of
Champaign, ILL.,, with doctrinal sermon. DR..
Kendrck. of Shurtleff College, and large num-
Der of able ministers and delegates are in attend
ance, representing :, 500 members of the princi-
pal churches in this congressional district. The
convention will close to morrow.
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No Thanks tn Voorhees,,
Chicago Times.


Dan Voorhees, says: 1.-THE administration of
Cleveland has been a pronounced success. With
Cleveland at the head of the Democratic ticket,
success is insured" The Cleveland admiuistra-
ton would not have been success in any de-
gree if Voorhees, spoils methods in Indiana had
been allowed to prevail generally. and it is not
much of q success AS it would have been had
these methods not prevailed there.
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Gen. John A. Rawlins. the State Auditor having
announced that another township in Illinois had
alre ady been named Grant, and that the statute
prohibited the duplicating of township names.
The Normal postofice was robbed on Monday
night of 81, 700 in stamps and nearly 5000 In
money Burglars entered the rear door and
blew the safe open. Two tramps have been ar
rested, having been found in a freight-car with
some articles taken from the postofice.
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Successful Use of Natural Gas at Vernon.
Fatal Stabbing.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
Mt. VERNON. Aug. PA fatal stabbing af-
fray occurred here to-day between Thomas
Lewis and Jesse " llliams, two employees of the
Steamer Rosedale. Lewis was descending the
bank with q sack of bran, when Williams at
tackled him with sharp knife inhicting eleven
wounds, two OF them being fatal-one in the
LETT arm severing an artery, and one about three
inches below the heart. Williams escaped to
the steamer and secreted himself in the hold,
but was found and lodged in jail
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Crops in the "Pocket".

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
EVANSVILLE, Aug. PA special inquiry by
the Journal elected TIE following showing of
the condition of crops: The crops in southern
Indiana are even worse than anticipated two or
three weeks ago. The crop will not be
more than half, while late potatoes, with
few exceptions, may be set down entire
failure. The river bottoms OF Posey show fair
corn, but further the river this crop is seri-
ously damaged. Knox. Daviess and Martin
counties are the worst sufferers by the recent
drought. 1t is thought that Martin county will
not raise enough to feed the teams that
were used tending the CROP and many farmers
are selling their stock great sacrifice.
Successful Use of Natural Gas at Vernon.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VERNON Aug 24.-For the first time the
large pillow factory of j. Ell. Wagner & Co., and
the Touring mills of H. Goff in Vernon, COM
menced the use of natural gas as fuel this
morning. 1t proved a Steam was
raised in just one-haf the time that is required
by coal A number of the other factories here
now laying pipes to their establishments,
and many citizens having gas-fxtures ap-
piled to their private residences well as their
business houses. Vernon is now lighted by nat
ural gas, and makes the claim of being the first
and only city in southern Indiana using natural
gas successfully and profitably.
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Special to the indianapolis Journal
ELKHART, Aug. 24-Ferdinand McNutt, aged
twenty years, was killed on the Lake Shore pile
driver, fow miles east of here yesterday after
noon. He went up to take the block from under
the hammer, the latter fell prematurely. and.
striking tho block, caused it to strike McNutt,
who fell distance of twenty feet, aliehting
on his head. He lived about IN hour
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DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN.
Indications.

WASHINGTON. Aug. IS, 1 A. N.
For Indiana and Illinois-Fair weather; north
erly winds, becoming variable; slight rise in
temperature in the southern portion; station airy
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Steamship News.

LONDON, Aug. 24.-The steamer City of
Rome, from New York for Liverpool passed
Browhead to day.
NEW YORK. Aug. 24.-Arrived: City of Para,
from Aspinwall; Belgenland from Antwerp;
City of Washington. from Havana.
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AUCTION SALE.


a UCTION OF REAL ESTATE-WE WILL SELL
N at auction, the premises, Monday. Aug %.
p. m, the fourroom cottage and business house
situated the southeast corner of Lincoln avenue
and Beeler street. The buildings separate new
and desirable VIII rent for $15 per month. Terms
ehalf cash; ba lance in one and two years. Look
at this property if you want good investment. w.
E. MICK g. co. l.. n. PERRY, Auctioneer.
4 UCTION SALOON TUESDAY, AUG. SO,
n at 10 o'clock a. M. will sell, the premises.
house and lot No. 1853 Beilefontaine street Lot
40x15O, stone curb and powdered cutters; cellar
well, cistern and stable. House, rooms on ground
floor; splendid neighborhood One square from Blake
and two squares from College street lines
Nice home. Terms. 81 200 long time at 6 per cent?
balance cash GUsTIS s. MCCURDY, Auctioneers. +.
O. WADSWORTH. 80 Circle
4 UCTION SALE OF GROCERIES AND FIX
n tures-We will sell on Friday morning August
% at 10 o'clock. at the store No. 2S4 West Wash
ngton street in lots to suit the trade general stock
Of staple and fancy groceries, embracing coffees teas
sugar, -four. SOAP starch matches, tobacco, cigars
brooms. spices baking powder, canned fruits. vine
gar, syrups. moasses etc, etc. Also. at the same
time the fixtures consisting of shelving, counters.
awning showcases ice-chest, oil tank, counter scales,
coffee mill, flour platform scales. tea coffee
cans candy jars. cheese case chicken coop ETC. ETC.
Terms cash. Sale positive. GUSTIN 81 McCURDY.
Auctioneers
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When abe was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss she chung to Castoria,
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Local Weather Record.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. %. 1887.
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